KBIA Local
(2010-06-09)
COLUMBIA, MO
(KBIA) -
Boone Heritage Foundation officials are hoping to raise money for the Blind Boone Home through a two day festival featuring ragtime and early jazz. They'll be multiple concerts today and tomorrow at the Missouri Theatre. Half of the proceeds from ticket sales will go towards efforts to restore the interior of the downtown Columbia house ragtime and early jazz musician John William "Blind" Boone called home. Lucille Salerno is the artistic director for the festival. She hopes that the festival will bring attention to the cause and the music.
"Bringing the music to the people so that they can understand its beauty and its uniqueness but also to get Boone's name out there as an important, a critically important person in the development of American music."
Salerno says musicians have come from many of the 50 states as well as Canada and Europe for the festival. The festival also includes after hours events, a tour of the Boone home and a film showing.
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